Provided are a camera shooting type remote water meter reading
system achieving fast recognition and a reading recognition method thereof. The
system comprises a camera, a fill light, a single-
chip microcomputer, a storage and an RS485 circuit; the camera is arranged to be just opposite to a dial plate of a direct-reading character wheel water meter, the fill light is arranged near the camera, light is emitted to the dial plate of the direct-reading character wheel water meter, the single-
chip microcomputer is connected with the camera, the fill light, the storage and the RS485 circuit separately, image information of the dial plate of the direct-reading character wheel water meter is shot by the camera and sent to the single-
chip microcomputer, the single-chip microcomputer firstly trains dial plate image training samples to obtain
feature vector matrices of numbers from 0 to 9 and form a
factor matrix, then the collected dial plate image information is processed to obtain
digital pictures of all character wheels, and finally an actual reading of the water meter dial plate is obtained by multiplying the digital picture of each character wheel by the
factor matrix. According to the camera shooting type remote water meter reading
system achieving fast recognition and the reading recognition method thereof, the problem that an existing water meter reading system single-chip microcomputer is
out of memory can be effectively solved, and the cost of the water meter reading system is lowered.